Having chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

Lee H. Hamilton was elected to the US House of Representatives as part of the national Democratic landslide of 1964. He remained in Congress until 1999; at the time he was one of two surviving members of the large Democratic freshman class of 1965 (the other being John Conyers). He "played key roles in covering up two of [the] inter-connected scandals, October Surprise and Iran-Contra"[1] as well as 9-11.

October surprise conspiracy

During the 1980 US presidential election the campaign of Ronald Reagan sought to negotiate a solution to the Iran hostage crisis in competition to the US government of Jimmy Carter in order to prevent the successful resolution of the crisis giving Jimmy Carter an electoral boost. After years of investigation, reporters were close to proving this conspiracy. As a response, in 1992 the deep state set up a United States House of Representatives task force to settle upon an official narrative and take the wind out of the investigators' sails. Hamilton was chosen to chair the House October Surprise Task Force. In 2013, after new evidence continued to surface, he claimed that he was having "second thoughts" about his claim that "there was virtually no credible evidence to support the accusations."[2]

Having chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. +